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Wally: The secret of happiness is to love who you are, not who others want you to be. Dilbert: Doesn't that make you a sociopath? Wally: Yeah, I love that about me. —Dilbert

Marge: You'll make plenty of friends, and long as you be yourself. (Marge leaves) Lisa: Be yourself? I've been myself for 8 years and it's never helped me! Lousy advice... —The Simpsons

If you go to the grocery store and you stand in front of the lunch meat section for too long, you start to get really pissed off at turkeys. You see, like, turkey ham, turkey pastrami, turkey bologna. Someone needs to tell the turkeys, "Man, just be yourself!" —Mitch Hedberg

For five minutes, could you not be yourself? For FIVE MINUTES! —Shrek, to Donkey, Shrek 2

All of this gruesome grotesquerie is incredibly wrapped up into a story that grunts and groans and laboriously offers up a Moral at the film's end, which is, and I quote: "It's not about what you are, it's about who you are." I could have told you that.

Always be yourself, unless you suck. —Joss Whedon

Rincewind: It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong. —Sourcery

Jacen Solo: The only power I have--The only power any of us have--is to be who we are. That's what I'm going to do here. Be who I am. —Traitor

Angela: People always say you should be yourself, like "yourself" is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you can know what it is, even. —My So-Called Life

Molly: You should always just be youself. Aisling: That's a movie thing to say, not a real life thing to say. —Trivia

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. —Polonius, Hamlet, after a monologue's worth of advice

Shinji: I'm a coward. I'm cowardly, sneaky, and weak! Misato: No. Only if you think you are, but if you know yourself, you can take care of yourself. —Neon Genesis Evangelion

You make each day a special day. You know how; by just your being you. There's only one person in this whole world like you. And people can like you exactly as you are. —Fred Rogers

Your only validation is in living your own life Vicarious existence is a fucking waste of time —Guns N' Roses, "Don't Damn Me"

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